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AFTER THIRTY YEARS 



1874 




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''Backward, turn backward, 0/ Time in your flight. 
Make me a boy again, just for tonight^ 



Preface. 

Classmates: 

This supplement to the history pubHshed in 1899 completes the record which the class 
of 1874 leaves as the story of what its members have accomplished for themselves, for each 
other, and for their Alma Mater. It is for others to say how far we have done honor to the 
mother who gave us our training. 

The preparation of this work has, of necessity, been slow; but its completeness seems 
to justify the delay. As now presented to you, this book contains the graduation picture of 
every member of the class, with the exception of Macomber, who, so far as can be learned, 
did not have one; and a picture of each man as he is to-day, or was just previous to his death, 
with the following exceptions. Chase, Jenkins, Pierce, Sanborn, A. W. Bumham and Foster 
had no picture taken after graduation, and nothing is known of Hawthorn. The last picture 
of Barrett was taken in 1879 ; those of Lee, Taylor and Pearson about 1880; those of Blanchard 
and Rolfe, several years before their deaths. 

It has been a disappointment to find so few pictures showing the daily college life. The 
large one of the college coming from chapel, must have been taken in the spring of Junior 
year, as '73 faces can be recognized at the left. The one on Observatory Hill, taken Sopho- 
more fall, and that of the C. S. D. men are the treasures of the book, for every face can be re- 
cognized. It is greatly to be regretted that no picture was obtained of the men present at the 
reunion of '99. Its place will be supplied, so far as possible, by one of that of 1904. While 
this book must have a peculiar value for ourselves, it is hoped that it may not be without 
interest for others, as a record of the changes wrought in men by the processes of time and 
character development. 

Charles E. Quimby, 

Secretary. 
New York, June 21, 1904. 



''Our Alma Mater is the theme. 
Old Dartmouth, loved and dear'.' 




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ALEXANDER R. ARCHIBALD. 





CHARLES W. BADGLEY. 





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JAMES C. BARRETT. 





ALFRED W. BEASLEY. 





FERDINAND BLANCHARD. 





HENRY G. BRAINERD. 





EDWARD J. BROWN. 





SILAS H. BURNHAM. 





CHARLES F. CASWELL. 





JOSEPH L. CAVERLY. 





DOANE COGSWELL. 





EDWIN C. CRAWFORD. 





WILLIAM H. DAVIS. 





MYRON P. DICKEY. 





PARKER DICKSON. 





EDWIN G. EASTMAN. 





ALBERT EATON. 





HOWARD S. ELDRED. 





JOSEPH E. FENN. 





JAMES R. FREEMAN. 





CHARLES O. GATES. 





JOSEPH S. HAINES. 





HENRY H. HART. 





HERMAN L. HORNE. 





GEORGE W. LEE. 





HOMER P. LEWIS. 





SAMUEL W. McCALL. 





OSCAR M. METCALF. 





CLINTON H. MOORE. 





WILLIAM W. MORRILL. 





EDGAR L. MORSE. 






OTTO A. NESMITH. 





ALBERT F. NEWTON. 





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FRANK N. PARSONS. 





WILLIAM E. PETRIE. 





CHARLES H. PETTEE. 





FREDERICK S. PLATT, 





SAMUEL L. POWERS. 





ALBERT W. S. PROCTOR. 





JAMES W. PUTNAM. 




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CHARLES E. QUIMBY. 





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JOHN B. RICHARDSON. 





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HERBERT P. ROLFE. 





CLARENCE W. SCOTT. 





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GEORGE H. STEVENS. 





FRANK S. STREETER. 





HARRY J. TATTERSON. 





ARTHUR F. TAYLOR. 





MARK WARD. 





ALBERT P. WARREN. 





DANIEL F. WEBSTER. 





WILLIAM R. WHITE. 





REUBEN B. WRIGHT. 





WELLS A. BINGHAM. 





HENRY F. CHASE. 



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LOUIS C. MERRILL. 





WILLIAM MORRILL. 





WALTER PARKER. 





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WALTER H. FOSTER. 





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FOOT-BALL IN '74. 




THE OLD CHAPEL. 




'■'•Cotne, let us anew our journey pursue, 
Roll round with the year 
And never stand still till the Master appear." 



Addenda et Errata. 

John A. Aiken. His judicial appointment in 1898 was to the Superior, not Supreme, Court 
of Massachusetts. 

Orrin G. Baker. Resigned his pastorate in Ferrisburg in 1899. Called to the Congregational 
Church in Franklin, Vt., November 1, 1900. In 1902 was made Superintendent of Schools. 

Frank O. Baldwin. Baldwin's son Ralph, class of '02 Dart., died from pulmonary disease 
in June, 1902 ; and Baldwin himself is reported to be greatly broken in health. 

Eliel S. Ball. Ball died in Waltham, Mass., January 1, 1892. He left tvm sons; Lawrence 
S., born December 22, 1880; Alfred, born February 17, 1886. 

Alfred W. Beasley. He became instructor in mathematics and science at the Peoria High 
School, in 1880. Was elected principal of the Frankhn School in 1884, and of the High 
School in 1888. This position he has filled with conspicuous success. He was 
married November 29, 1876 to Miss Mary Ramsey, of Peoria. Their first son, Robert, died 
at the age of eleven. In 1900 they had three sons, Fred, age 17; Alfred, age 14; and 
Jules, age 4. In 1902 Fred was a sophomore in the University of Illinois. Beasley 's 
address is 815 Spring Street. 

Edward J. Brown. Brown received his degree of M.D. from Dartmouth Medical College in 
1878. Two children, Calvin F., and Helen A., were born August 10, 1899. 

Silas H. Burnham. He received his degree of A.B., in course, at the commencement of '99. 

Charles F. Caswell. For 21 years Caswell has been the Chairman of his county delegation 
to the Republican State Convention, and for many years member of the State Central 
Committee. 

Henry F. Chase. Is still living in unchanged condition. 

Doane Cogswell. Cogswell was married October 8, 1902 to Mrs. Annie I. Wentworth. He 
has built a residence on the banks of the Merrimac in the suburbs of Haverhill, which is 
his present address. 

Edwin C. Crawford. He has one son born June 6, 1890. Business address is 145 La Salle St., 
Chicago . 

William H. Davis. Was elected a permanent trustee of the College, in January, 1902. 

Parker Dickson. He returned from Lexington, Ky., to Cincinnati in 1900. Address, 413 
Broadway. 

Edwin G. Eastman. He has a son, Edwin Winter, born June 18, 1894. 

Albert Eaton. Address, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaiian Islands. 

Howard S. Eldred. Is now President of the "Anson Eldred Lumber Co." The middle name 
should be "Stiles." 

Charles O. Gates. In 1901 he was made President of the companies consolidated as the 
"Royal Baking Powder Co." Is a candidate for alumni trustee in 1904. 



Henry H. Hart. Hart died at St. Peter's Asylum, Minneapolis, September 27, 1901, of 
paretic dementia. 

Homer P. Lewis. Lewis' first wife died in November, 1880. In March, 1891, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Elizabeth P. Goodson, of St. Louis. In 1903 he was appointed Superintendent 
of Schools of Worcester, Mass. 

Clinton H. Moore. Moore has become an expert in Geology and Mineralogy, and, some years 
since, presented to the College a most valuable collection of over two thousand specimens 
of mineral ores. Many of the specimens are from historic mines, and the entire collection 
can hardly be duplicated. In May, 1900, he was appointed Deputy Collector of Internal 
Revenue for the district of Montana, and in January, 1904, was elected Secretary of the 
"Montana Society of Engineers." His middle name is "Hill," not "Henry." 

William W. Morrill. His name should be in the list of "Editors of The Anvil." 

Edgar L. Morse. Is now pastor at West WiUiamsfield, Ohio. 

Otto A. Nesmith. In February, 1901, Nesmith was appointed Captain in the Signal Corps, 
Regular Army, and assigned to duty as Chief Signal Officer in Cuba with station at Havana. 
At the evacuation of Cuba he returned to Washington. For the past year he has been 
stationed at Fort Egbert, Eagle City, Alaska. His middle name is "Andreae," his wife's 
maiden name Vaughan; his daughter's name Ottola. 

Albert F. Newton. He resigned his pastorate at Haverhill in July, 1901, and accepted a call 
to the Congregational church of North Leominster, Mass., December 1, 1901. 

Frank N. Parsons. Was made Chief Justice, N. H. Supreme Court, July 1, 1901. 

Samuel L. Powers. Was elected member of Congress, November 1900, from the Uth Mass. 
District. 

Albert W. S. Proctor. He is now the oldest member, by continuous service, of the Kings 
County Republican Committee. He was born June, not January 13, and the name is 
"Proctor," not "Procter." 

James W. Putnam. Was married on April 27, 1903, to Miss Carrie Clark, of Denver, Colo. 

John B. Richardson. In June, 1902, he was appointed U. S. Consul at Port Limon, Costa 
Rica, but was transferred to Utila, Honduras, befo.-e sailing for his post in September. 
(Note previous error in first name.) 

William 8. Rix. His birth place was Royalton, Vt., of which town his father was a pioneer 
settler. His second son, John B., is in the class of 1906 at Dartmouth. 

Henry G. Sanborn. When first in Australia he was successful as a sheep rancher, until drouth 
killed all his stock, and he barely escaped with his life to the settlements. He then appealed 
to Rolfe for aid, who, though in pinched circumstances at that time, sent him passage 
money home. Later, while on a ranch in Montana, Sanborn, secured title to mineral 
lands, where the town of Neihart now stands. These he sold in 1885, returned to Placer- 
ville, married and started in the lumber business. Moving into a new house before it was 
completed, he was taken ill and died within a few days. His wife died in childbirth a 
month later, leaving a daughter which both Rolfe and Moore have sought to trace, but 
without success. 

Clarence W. Scott. Was transferred in 1894 from the chair of English to that of History and 
Political Economy in the N. H. College. 



Frederick C. Southgate. He has been made State's Attorney for Windsor Co.; is Town 
Treasurer, Trustee of the Savings Bank, and Director of the PubHc Library. 

George H. Stevens. Stevens suffered a stroke of apoplexy in November, 1899, which resulted 
in his death, April 4, 1900. At the time he was Public Administrator, Title Examiner, 
Bail Commissioner, and Historian of the old Middlesex Chapter "Sons of the American 
Revolution." 

Frank S. Streeter. Streeter is also a permanent trustee. The class of '74 thus contributes 
20% of the "Board of Trustees." 

Mark Ward. Soon after the reunion of '99, Ward's health began to fail, and he was com- 
pelled to give up work. The last months of his life were spent at the home of his brother- 
in-law, in Westminster, Vt., where he died. May 24, 1902. 

Albert P. Warren. In 1904, Warren became Secretary of, and a Director in the boot and 
shoe firm of " Foote, Schultz & Co." of St. Paul. Residence address is 623 Summit Ave. 

William R. White. Was President in 1904 of the R. I. State Medical Society. 



C. S. D. 

Henry Brockway. The date of birth of his second son should be 1887. 

George J. Carr. In 1900 Carr moved his residence from Lowell to Montclair, N. J., and began 
the practise of law in New York with offices at 135 Broadway. 

John W. Flanders. The date of his marriage should be 1885. In 1898 he became general 
manager of the traveller's department for the firm of H. E. Buckhn & Co., of Chicago. 
His permanent address is Brentwood, N. H. 

Walter H. Foster. Foster taught for one year in the Rutland Military Institute. Entering 
the Thayer School in the fall of '75, he received his degree of C.E. in '76, and at once re- 
sumed teaching at Rutland, where he remained until his death, April 2, 1878. 

Charles 0. Huntress. He is still in the engineering department of the North Western Tele- 
phone Co., of MinneapoHs. His address is 1705 Clinton Avenue, MinneapoHs. 

James B. Johnson. In 1890 he removed to Boston and now has charge of the Boston branch 
of the J. B. Thatcher Co., of New York, with office at 118 Fulton Street. He has one 
daughter. 

Elgin A. Jones. In 1900 Jones was made President of the newly organized "Keene, Marlow 
and Newport Electric Railway." 

Owen Roberts Mason. Mason received his degree of B. S. in course at the commencement 
of '99. (Note correction of name). 



Walter Parker. Parker was married August 21, 1901 to Miss Abbie R. Safford, of Quechee, 
Vt. They have one son. 

William H. Pratt. For five years after graduation was teaching mathematics; then for five 
years was in engineering, mostly of railroad construction, with headquarters at Dayton, 
O., Chicago, Harrisburg, Columbus, etc. In 1884 he entered the structural iron business 
with the Morse Bridge Co., of Youngstown, O. Three years later he had charge of re- 
building the plant of the Edge Moor Bridge Works at Wilmington, Del. In 1889 he moved 
to Mt. Vernon, O., where he was for ten years with the Mt. Vernon Bridge Co. October 
1898, he became manager of the Universal Construction Co., of Chicago, a department of 
of the Illinois Steel Co. Pratt was married October 8, 1890, to Miss Elizabeth Devin, of 
Mt. Vernon. They have three children : Ellen, born in 1892 ; Hazel, born in 1896; and 
Emily, born in 1898. His residence is at Evanston, 111., and his business address is 50 
Wabansia Avenue, Chicago. 

Victor I. Spear. In 1899 Spear moved to Randolph, Vt., to take charge of the maple sugar 
market of the State Association of sugar manufacturers. 



Collegiate Record, Sons of '74. 

Dickey, Maurice W., Dart., 1899. 

Gilson, Henry B., Dart., 1900. 

Baldwin, Ralph D., Dart., 1902. 

White, Howard J., Brown, 1902. 

Davis, Robert M., Dart., 1903. 

Carr, Shirley N., Princ, 1903. 

McCall, Sumner T., Harv., 1903. 

Webster, Bradford, Yale, 1903. 

Streeter, Thomas W., Dart., 1904. 

Beasley, Fred, Univ. of 111., 1905. 

Pettee, Horace, J., N. H. Coll., 1905. 

Badgley, Chas. W., Jr., Sch. of Mines, Colo., 1906. 

Rix, John B., Dart., 1906. 

Webster, Benjamin, Yale, 1906. 

Southgate, Richard S., Dart., 1907. 



Twenty-fifth Anniversary Reunion. 

The 25th anniversary reunion of the class of '74 was held in Hanover, June 26, 27 and 
28, 1899. These fifty-one members were present: — 

Aiken, Allen, Allin, Baker, Baldwin, Brainerd, Brown, Burnham, Caswell, Cogswell, 
Caverly, Dickey, Dickson, Eastman, Eldred, Fenn, Home, Lewis, McCall, Morrill, Morse, 
Newton, Parsons, Pettee, Piatt, Powers, Proctor, Putnam, Quimby, R. G. Reed, Richardson, 
Rix, Scott, Southgate, Stevens, Streeter, Ward, Warren, White, Wright; Brockway, Carr, 
Gilson, J. B. Johnson, Jones, Mason, Merrill, Wm. Morrill, Parker, Pratt and Spear. Davis 
was absent only by reason of severe illness. Of the seventeen other members still living, 
Chase, Hart and Petrie had been hopelessly ill for years and were then inmates of asylums; 
Eaton and Gates were out of the country; Hawthorn had been lost, and Huntress was unable 
to travel; thus leaving but eleven men to be accounted for. But, most remarkable of all, and 
what probably no other class can boast of, every man was present who had promised to be 
there. A sworn certificate of this attendance, appended to the autograph of each man, is now 
on file in the College Library as witness for all time to the loyalty of '74. Numerically it re- 
presents 74% of those living, and, excluding those who were ill or out of the country, it becomes 
83. 5% of the possible attendance. The class headquarters were at the "Quimby House," 
where the business and social meetings were held, and where the ladies of the class received 
each afternoon. On Tuesday the class went in a body to pay their respects to Dr. Leeds, 
Prof. Emerson, Prof. Sherman, and Mrs. Proctor. 

The anniversary banquet, which was held Tuesday evening at the hotel, found fifty-one 
'74 men gathered about the board with Powers in the president's chair, prepared to encompass 
a menu of the president's providing. 

During the concluding courses. President Powers opened the evening's entertainment 
with that felicity and dignity which the passing years had not lessened, and cannot change. 
The secretary then read an address of welcome, (which is placed in an appendix, where it may 
be ignored) ; after which the class listened to a few words of reminiscence and good-fellowship 
from each member present. A small loving cup was provided for each one as a souvenir of 
the reunion, and the class, taking loving revenge, heaped coals of fire upon the head of their 
secretary, by presenting him with a beautiful silver cup, in token of their forgiveness of his 
misdoings. The night was ended with a song and a cheer for Dartmouth and a resolution to 
make the thirtieth anniversary reunion a still greater success. 

The class was again assembled for the Alumni dinner, on Wednesday, at which time 
they presented to the College, in behalf of Mr. Wm. F. Havemeyer, of New York, the original 
deed of that "house and two acres of land," upon which Dartmouth College was founded, as 
its first gift of real property. This deed which shows that Joshua Moore gave the land con- 
ditionally and that, at his death, it reverted to his widow, is given by that lady, and thus 
makes the fair Dorothy More the foundress and patroness of Dartmouth College. The 
scientific men should find a pecuUar interest in this bit of history ; and we all should remember 
that they represent the origin of our Alma Mater. 

The partings on Wednesday and Thursday were with regret ; but with gratitude for 
what had been, and with a renewed enthusiasm for the glorious class of '74. 



Welcome to '74. 

(Read at the re-utnon banc/uet, j8i^g.) 



Dear classmates and brothers in '74, 

PYom the North and the South, and the far Western shore, 
Here's welcome and greeting, yes, welcome thrice o'er; 
To-night we are j^oungsters in college once more. 

The years of our parting have fled as a di"eam, 
Their struggles and conflicts like phantoms but seem, 
For the Century's Cjuadrant a circle hath made, 
Circumferenced by Memory's mystical braid. 
Wherein till the morrow, united we share 
That blissful nepenthe, which banisheth Care. 
Then shout till the stars, as they listen, shall hear 
Our jubilant chorus and Dartmouth's wild cheer. 

Tho' the prophet of old got a cinch on the sun. 
Still Memory discounts his trick two to one, 
And lightly the hands on the dial of Time 
Turns back with a cheek that is truly subliine. 
She turns them for us just a quarter to-night, 
And Time, at her bidding, retraces his flight, 
While we, with our love of the olden-time ways, 
In spirit live over those dear college days. 

Then presto! We're Freshmen with nary a fear 
Of flunking to-morrow; Tute Chase isn't here 
To call to remembrance, as surely he'd do. 
Our ignorance as to ' 'why ht]' and not o/('." 
And Johnnie to-morrow won't hear us recite, 
For we are but Ghosts, playing Freshie to-night. 

So swift Ursa Major has mounted the pole 

Already we're Sophs, so pass round the bowl. 

Ho! Zip's got a Freshie! The goat should be here; 

There's less than an hour in Sophomore year. 

Come! Come! Is there no one to act as the goat? 

We must just a moment to folly devote ; 

Yet swear on the morrow, our wives to appease, 

We only played Juniors, and sat at our ease. 

Discussing the science which teaches us how 

To smooth out the wrinkles of care from the brow. 

'Tis said, and to Juniors we're changed at the word; 
Two years have escaped us, hold fast to the third. 
And so, till the dawn shall be tinging the East, 
We'll fill up the bowl and replenish the feast, 
Forgetting the morrow, whose light shall declare 
We're Seniors in life, by the snow in our hair. 



Oh days of our Youth! when Pleasure was king, 
Oh days of our Freedom! of thee do we sing, 
When even the call of the old chapel bell, 
Tho' often consigned to the regions of — well! 
'Twere better, perhaps, not to be too exact 
In quoting expressions that elegance lacked ; 
When even that voice, with its soft mellow ring. 
Seemed rather of pleasure than duty to sing. 

All day we have wandered through class-room and hall, 

Where voices, long silent, seem softly to call 

And set in vibration deep chords in our heart, 

With music transcending all powers of Art ; 

While shadowy figures are filling the air. 

And quick, eager footsteps resound on the stair. 

The rooms where we grappled with Latin and Greek, 

To learn, if not wisdom, at least to be meek. 

Are filled with the faces which greeted us then, 

For they are still boys, though we are old men. 

There's Pierce's rosy cheek 'neath the glossy black head, 

And Freeman, war-scarred from the rush he has led; 

There Lee's sturdy shoulders, and frank, merry face, 

And Taylor's trim figure made plain by its grace; 

With Webster and Rolfe, whose characters true 

Foreshadowed the work they were destined to do. 

And noble Jim Barrett, whose features e'en then 

Revealed, in futuro, a leader of men. 

There's Sanborn and Jenkins, with Macomber near 

Where Blanchard and Tatterson also appear, 

And last, but not least, is our dear, gentle Ball. 

Ah! brothers, how tenderly do we recall 

Their faces, their voices, the touch of their hands 

Now waiting to greet us in heavenly lands. 

Then here is a toast to our brothers who sleep ; 
With uplifted hands, let us promise to keep 
Their memory fresh, and their honor maintain 
Until we shall look on their faces again. 

Once more we are called by that clamorous bell. 
In tones that keep saying, ' 'you're fools to rebel," 
So, just as it ceases we rush up the stairs 
That lead to the barracks devoted to prayers. 
And pray to be saved fron\ our righteous deserts. 
As we hook our suspenders and button our shirts. 

Ah! Old Chapel Walls, be you ever so bare. 
Our memories' frescoes will render you fair. 
Undimmed is the picture on memory's page 
Portraying your humble and plain little stage. 
Yet, where has munificence gilded a throne 
That kinglier occupants ever has known, 
Than sat on that stage in the days of its prime. 
Whose names will be honored in all coming time ? 



There sits at the head, dear Prexy, so true, 
Whose character none of us ever half knew. 
Dear Prexy, so genial, so gentle, so kind, 
Who always was seeking some method to find 
For saving the rascal, whose sin was in fun, 
From punishment fitted to what he had done; 
Preferring the rather to help him regain 
His good reputation and honor maintain. 
They all have passed over to find the rewards 
Which God to His servants so freely accords, 
Save Johnnie and Chuck, who were then little boys, 
Remain to remind us of dubious joys. 

But time has remodelled their views of young men ; 

No longer they rule as they governed us then. 

Yes, "tempora maxime eja mutantur," 

(Don't think that that line was composed all instanter), 

And Dartmouth is forging ahead in the race 

So fast that she soon will be setting the pace; j U 

While customs and ways, like the halls, which we knew, 

Are now over-shadowed by those that are new. 

We freely admit there is much that is good. 
But some certain things must be firmly withstood; 
For, while we rejoice in the growth of our mother, 
Neglect of old customs, in some way or other. 
Seems never quite right to a past generation. 
Which always has held them in high veneration. 

Just think of old Dartmouth, without any fence ; 
With students displaying such ignorance dense, 
They don't even know what is meant by the call 
Of "Ho! Old Division! come Freshie, foot-ball." 

No longer there rises that anthem profound, 

Olympian music of pulsating ground. 

As over the Campus, like waves of the deep, 

The battling classes resistlessly sweep. 

Whose deep diapason, so thrilling and strong, 

Re-echoes in thunder the victor's glad song; 

And the grass on the Common now withers to hay. 

For foot-ball 's a special elective to-day. 

But that is as nothing compared to the pain 

Of seeing committees selecting a cane. 

And fixing a date for the annual rush. 

Ye shades of our fathers ! no wonder you blush 

That students of Dartmouth have seen overthrown 

Their own Magna Charta, confirmed on his throne 

By Georgius the third, when he saw in advance, 

That if the poor Indians hadn't a chance 

Of showing their metal, and earning the right 

To govern themselves by success in a fight. 



The zeal of their teachers in trying to save 
The Indian's soul would make him their slave. 

So Georgius decreed, as a law for all time, 

That Dartmouth Professors should hold it no crime 

Wnen students played tricks, if they honestly thought 

Their wit would enable them not to get caught. 

And then, to prevent their becoming too pro ad, 

He ordered that Freshmen should not be allowed 

To sport a high hat or to carry a cane ; 

And made it the duty of Sophs to maintain 

This royal prerogative, "which," said the King, 

"Is yours by this charter, I've sealed with my ring," 

Of hazing impertinent Freshmen, who show 

Excessive ambition to tell all they know. 

That they may acquire a proper respect 

For law, and for Sophs, as the King's own elect. 

But now, oh ye Gods! what a pitiful sight, 

That one single rush can establish the right 

Of Freshmen to carry a cane, or to wear 

A beaver, and sneer at the Sophs, ' ' Yer don't dare." 

Yet, strangely enough, in this cruel transition. 
The College seems not to have gone to perdition. 
Which must be ascribed to her wonderful luck 
In having as President William J. Tuck — • 
Er; scholar and diplomat, master and friend; 
May Heaven's best blessing his labors attend. 

Then an end to our dreaming of days that are dead ; 
The past is a shadow — our life is ahead ; 
But our love is as true and our hearts are as bold 
As any young fellow's just out of the mould. 
And when Alma Mater asks help from her sons 
Who'll quickest respond? Why! we'll be the ones 
Of course, as we always have been heretofore. 
And Mother '11 be proud of her '74. 

She'll tell Mrs. Williams and young Mrs. Brown, 
' ' Now really, my dears, it's the talk of the town 
How that lot of boys ; and I said 'twould be so, 
For being their mother I guess I should know, 
And Asa, at times, would allow that, perhaps, 
He erred in his judgment concerning the chaps; 
How that lot of boys, without any doubt, 
Is the smartest and best that I ever turned out. 

And so the dear Mother we leave in the hands 

Of him, whose requests have the force of commands; 

With '74 as his legal adviser. 

In case he's uncertain, which course is the wiser, 



And haven't the slightest occasion to fear 
But what the old College will show every year 
Increasing prosperity, and will expand, 
Until she's acknowledged the best in the land. 

Then fill up your glasses and drink to this toast ; 

Old Dartmouth, our Mother! whose children can boast 

That Dartmouth, through all the transitions of Time, 

Has ever been true to her mission sublime. 

Since christened in love by sweet Dorothy More 

As ' 'the college that welcomes the sons of the poor." 



The Twenty-fifth Milestone in the Pilgrimage of 
The Class of '74. 



"Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast." 



Cosines 



Menu 

Consomme a la '73 
(Likewise pie) 

Lettuce Square Roots 



Baked Thetford Suckers 
Broiled Mink Brook Trout 



Kibling's Mountain Dew 



"It was Dean Swift who ignored the bill of fare and asked for 
a bill of the company." 



Calves' Brains in Cassolettes 
(With apologies to '75) 



Modoc Grouse, Larded 
Roast Norwich Turkey, Pilfered 

White River Junction Catawba 



Hash a la Pelton 

South Hall Beans 

Vin de Pom me, Lyme 
Page Corned Beef Vintage 0/^2 

Corn Meal Fritters a la Swett 



"Were't the last drop in the well, 
As I gasped upon the brink, 

Ere my fainting spirit fell, 

'Tis to thee that I would drink.' 



Stewed Prunes 



Yearling Pie 

Assorted Fruit Chateau Lebanon 
(From Charlie Young's) 



Corn Cob Pipes 



Cordial a la Prexy 



"My boat is on the shore, 
My bark is on the sea." 



